Sabine Zerbian

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Sabine Zerbian (* 1975 in Berlin ) is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart .

Life

After studying abroad for one year at the Universiteit van Amsterdam , Sabine Zerbian studied English , linguistics and psychology at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Free University of Berlin . In 2006 she received her doctorate from Humboldt University. The topic of her dissertation was The expression of information structure in Northern Sotho (Bantu). From 2002 to 2007 she worked as a research assistant at the Center for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin. She then worked for three years as a senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg . From 2010 to 2013 she was junior professor for experimental phonology at the University of Potsdam . Since June 2012 she has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand and since April 2013 Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart.

Area of ​​Expertise

Her area of ​​expertise is the phonetic structures in the various languages, especially in English, German and the South African Bantu languages . As a phonologist , she examines in particular sound systems and speech melody and the question of how the meaning of a sentence in languages ​​is influenced by phonetic accentuation. She is concerned with the question of what happens when two different language systems collide in a person.

She is working on a project on Intonation and word order in majority English and heritage Russian across speaker populations , together with Sabine Schulte im Walde on a project on Integrated Research Training Group and on a project on Breaking the Unwritten Language Barrier. From 2014 to 2018 she worked on a project about cross-linguistic interactions in second language prosody.

Memberships

  • Member of the SpeechNet BaWü
  • Member of the Stuttgart Research Focus Language and Cognition
  • Board member of Incremental Specification in Context

Publications (selection)

Books

  • Expression of information structure in the Bantu language Northern Sotho . ZAS, Berlin 2006.

Essays

  • with Jochen Zeller and Toni Cook: Prosodic evidence for syntactic phrasing in Zulu . In: Larry M. Hyman and Jenneke van der Wal (eds.): The Conjoint / Disjoint Alternation in Bantu . De Gruyter - De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin Boston 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-049084-8 , pp. 259-328 .
  • Intonation in Sotho-Tswana . In: Laura J. Downing and Anni Rialland (eds.): Intonation in African Tone Languages . De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-048479-3 , pp. 393-433 .
  • with Mpho Raborife and Giuseppina Turco: The prosody of focus and emphasis in Sepedi. Proceedings of PRASA (Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa) . Stellenbosch 2016, p. 15-18 .
  • with G. Adda, S. Stüker, M. Adda-Decker, O. Ambouroue, L. Besaciere, D. Blachone, H. Bonneau-Maynard, P. Godard, F. Hamlaoui, D. Idiatov, G. Kouarat, L Lamel, E. Makasso, A. Rialland, M. Van de Velde, and F. Yvon: Breaking the Unwritten Language Barrier: The BULB Project . In: Procedia Computer Science . tape 81 , 2016, p. 8-14 .
  • with Giuseppina Turco, Nadja Schauffler, Margaret Zellers, Arndt Riester: Contrastive topic constituents in German . In: Proceedings of Speech Prosody . Boston 2016, p. 345-349 .
  • Prosodic marking of focus in transitive sentences in varieties of South African English . In: Ulrike Gut, Robert Fuchs and Eva-Maria Wunder (eds.): Universal or diverse paths to English Phonology . De Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-034592-6 , pp. 209-240 .
  • Markedness considerations in L2 Prosodic Focus and Givenness Marking . In: Élisabeth Delais-Roussarie, Mathieu Avanzi and Sophie Herment (eds.): Prosody and Language in Contact: L2 Acquisition, Attrition and Languages ​​in Multilingual Situations. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / Dordrecht / London 2015, ISBN 978-3-662-45167-0 , pp. 7-27 .
  • Syntactic and prosodic focus in contact varieties of South African English . In: English World-wide . tape 36 , no. 2 , 2015.
  • with Mpho Raborife and Sigrid Ewert: Improving a tone labeling algorithm for Sesotho . In: Language Resources and Evaluation . tape 49 , 2015, p. 19-50 .
  • with Tom Güldemann and Malte Zimmermann: Variation in Information Structure with Special Reference to Africa . In: Annual Review of Linguistics . No. 1 , 2015, p. 155-178 .
  • Onset Consonant Clusters in Tswana: Cw-sequences and affricates . In: Karsten Legere (Ed.): Studies in Bantu Linguistics and Languages: Papers in memory of Professor Rugatiri Mekacha . Bayreuth 2013, p. 143-165 .
  • Prosodic marking of narrow focus across varieties of South African English . In: English World Wide . tape 34 , no. 1 , 2013, p. 26-47 .
  • Questions in Northern Sotho . In: Laura J. Downing, Lutz Martin and Sabine Zerbian (eds.): Papers in Bantu grammar and description . University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 257–280 ( d-nb.info [accessed January 24, 2020]).
  • The relative clause and its tones in Tswana . In: Laura Downing (Ed.): Papers from the Workshop on Bantu Relative Clauses in Paris on January 8 - 9, 2010 . University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt 2010, p. 227–242 ( d-nb.info [accessed January 24, 2020]).
  • Perception and interpretation of intonational prominence in varieties of South African English . In: Kurt Braunmüller and Christoph Gabriel (eds.): Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies . Benjamin Publishing Company, Amsterdam 2012, p. 335-348 .
  • Morpho-phonological and morphological minimality in Tswana monosyllabic stems (Southern Bantu) . In: Thomas Stolz, Nicole Nau and Cornelia Stroh (eds.): Monosyllables: from phonology to typology . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2012, p. 131-148 .
  • A guide to tones in Tswana locatives . In: South African Journal of African Languages ​​(SAJAL) . tape 31 , no. 2 , 2011, p. 254-264 .
  • Tones of the Tswana relative clause . In: ZAS Papers in Linguistics (ZASPiL) . tape 53 , 2010, p. 227-242 .
  • with M. Swerts: Intonational differences between L1 and L2 English in South Africa . In: Phonetica . No. 67 , 2010, p. 127-146 .
  • Recent developments in the typology of intonation . In: Language and Linguistics Compass . tape 4 , no. 9 , 2010, p. 874-889 .
  • with Etienne Barnard: Realization of two adjacent high tones - Acoustic evidence from Northern Sotho . In: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies . tape 28 , no. 2 , 2010, p. 101-121 .
  • A contrastive analysis of the sound structure of Sotho-Tswana for second-language acquisition . In: Journal for Language Teaching / Tydskrif vir Taalonderrig . tape 43 , no. 2 , 2009, p. 131-152 .
  • with Etienne Barnard: Phonetics and phonology of single high tone alignment in Sepedi . In: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (SALALS) . tape 27 , no. 4 , 2009, p. 357-379 .
  • with Dieter Hartmann: Rhoticity in Black South African English- A sociolinguistic study . In: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (SALALS) . tape 27 , no. 2 , 2009, p. 135-148 .
  • with Etienne Barnard: Phonetics of intonation in South African Bantu languages . In: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (SALALS) . tape 26 , no. 2 , 2008, p. 235-254 .
  • with Manfred Krifka: Quantification across Bantu languages . In: Lisa Matthewson (Ed.): Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Semantics of Quantification . Emerald, Bingley 2008, pp. 383-414 .
  • with Albert E. Kotzé: On the Trigger for Palatalization in the Sotho languages . In: Journal of African Languages ​​and Linguistics . tape 29 , no. 1 , 2008, p. 67-95 .
  • Investigating prosodic focus marking in Northern Sotho . In: Katharina Hartmann, Enoch Oladé Aboh and Malte Zimmermann (eds.): Focus strategies: evidence from African languages . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, p. 55-82 .
  • The Subject / Object-Asymmetry in Northern Sotho . In: Kerstin Schwabe and Susanne Winkler (eds.): On Information Structure, Meaning and Form. Generalizations across languages . John Benjamin Publishing Company, Amsterdam / Philadelphia 2007, p. 323-345 .
  • Phonological Phrasing in Northern Sotho . In: The Linguistic Review . tape 24 , 2007, pp. 233-262 .
  • Questions in Northern Sotho . In: Linguistic Reports . tape 208 , 2006, p. 385-405 .
  • Inversion structures in Northern Sotho . In: Nhlanhla Thwala (Ed.): Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (SALALS) . tape 24 , no. 3 , 2006, p. 361-376 .
  • with Laura J. Downing and Lutz Marten: ZAS Papers in Bantu Grammar and Description . In: ZASPil . tape 43 . Berlin 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Sabine Zerbian | Expert | University of Stuttgart. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Zerbian, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin